, and the reconstruction of iraq and third, economic development assistance provided in iraq and afghantan. second, we must look up the time frames for the nation's i effort. the reactions to the fall of the saddam regime presented a different set on the ground actions from the work undertaken by the coalition provisional authority and different style from the more recent rapidly changing physical security environment and new set of contract and directives and policies some initiated by congress and undertaken by the defense department, state, centcom and joint contract in command for iraq and afghanistan. the final set of realities is what i refer to as situational contracting. to understand the nature of the contract and activities in iraq is essential to understand the differences between emergency contract in during a heightened military action, contingency contracting during heightened physical challenges and longer-term sustainment contracting that could characterize the situation today. it would be a mistake to select any subset of acquisitions written for normal contracting and exp